Sundress Publications is pleased to announce that the readers for our 2024 AWP off-site reading include Heather Bartlett, Sarah Renee Beach, Evelyn Berry, jason b. Crawford, Caleb Curtiss, and Amanda Galvan Huynh. The reading will take place on February 9th, 2024, from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM at Nimble Brewing Company 1735 Oak Street Kansas City, MO 64108.
Heather Bartlett is a poet, writer, and professor. She is the author of the poetry collection Another Word for Hunger (Sundress Publications). Her poetry and prose can be found in print and online in journals such as Barrow Street, Lambda Literary, Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, RHINO Poetry, Poet Lore, and others. She teaches creative writing and writing studies at the State University of New York at Cortland and is the founding editor of the online literary magazine Hoxie Gorge Review. Find more of her work at heatherbartlett.com.
Originally from Southeast Texas, Sarah Renee Beach received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School, where she was awarded the Dean’s Merit Scholarship. Her debut poetry chapbook, Impact, won Sundress Publication’s 2022 Chapbook Contest. She now lives in Austin, TX, where she is the Program Director at the Writers’ League of Texas. More at sarahreneebeach.com.
Evelyn Berry is a trans, Southern writer, editor, and educator. She’s the author of Grief Slut (Sundress Publications, 2023). She’s a recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship and lives in Columbia, South Carolina.
Shlagha Borah (she/her) is from Assam, India. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Bat City Review, EcoTheo Review, Salamander, Nashville Review, Florida Review, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. She is a 2nd-year MFA candidate in Poetry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the Reading Series Coordinator at Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA), and an Editorial Assistant at The Offing. She has received support for her work from Brooklyn Poets, SAFTA, and The Hambidge Center. She is the co-founder of Pink Freud, a student-led collective working towards making mental health accessible in India.
jason b. crawford (They/He/She) born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Lansing, MI, is the author of Year of the Unicorn Kidz. They have poems in POETRY Magazine, The Cincinnati Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and RHINO Poetry, among others. They are a 2023 Emerging Writers Fellow for Lambda Liteary and hold their MFA in Poetry from The New School. Their second collection, YEET!, is the winner of the Omnidawn 12st/2nd Book Prize and will be published in Fall 2025.
Caleb Curtiss is the author of Age of Forgiveness. His poetry appears in The Gettysburg Review, Image, The Southern Review, and elsewhere.
Amanda Galvan Huynh (She/Her) is a Xicana writer and educator from Texas. She is the author of Where My Umbilical is Buried (Sundress Publications 2023) and Co-Editor of Of Color: Poets’ Ways of Making: An Anthology of Essayson Transformative Poetics (The Operating System 2019).
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